Heat3 wrote:contract wrote:Heat3 wrote:
It doesn't matter who his replacement would be??
He isn't signing for 2 years. So someone has to play that role. A vet min guy?
How much better than Gabe was he? Yeah you go with a vet min guy rather than give a 35 year old who lost his starting job $85 mil / 3 years.
Not much better. But Lowry was a starter in Toronto. He was a starter in year 1 with the Heat and was a starter for most of the games he played last year.
I don’t see how you can use that as an argument against his contract. They cannot tell the future and think “we can’t sign him cause in a year and a half he won’t start some games”.
We could play that same game now. Dame most certainly won’t be worth $60M in his last year. Beal might not be worth his salary right now. Maybe Jimmy has fallen off the cliff already so not giving up assets this summer for “his” window was the right decision since it may already be closed. So turns out this was a summer of all the right moves being made. Just come back in 3 years and we’ll see.
Looking at it objectively, signing Lowry for three years they were probably expecting to get 2 out of him. In those two the team made it to within 1 shot of two Finals. That’s pretty good and would be hard to replicate going forward no matter moves are made.
Every year further a player goes into his 30s increases the chances that he will fall off hard and never recover again. Lowry was already 5 years in. This didn't require a crystal ball. Every season at least once a year I post a list of the top scorers in their mid to upper 30s, and it's always ugly. Performance, endurance, and availability, all start going to hell ... and a players quickness and explosiveness go too.
The salary wasn't even the issue, it was the years. A 3 year commitment to a 35 year old is too much.
